Crime & Public Safety
Crime & Public Safety

Parole board’s secret votes forgive sex offenders

By Alan Judd
Sept 12, 2014

Why did the Georgia parole board pardon a man who sodomized a 6-year-old? It won't tell the victim, or her family, or law enforcement officials. You can learn more about the parole board's secrecy and about the sex offender at myajc.com and in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

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Alan Judd is a former investigative reporter for the AJC. He has written about persistently dangerous apartment complexes in metro Atlanta, juvenile justice, child welfare, sexual abuse by physicians, patient deaths in state psychiatric hospitals, and other topics.

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